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[G1 Android Development] jokage:
well there is a way around actuall bricks i've done it. it's actually quite simple; you'll need a working motherboard and just replace that one with your bricked one voila G1 is functioning.

the issue is getting a motherboard, just get a damaged G1 on ebay maybe 50 bucks or so. i know that t-mobile gives you 130 dollars or so for a working G1 so surely it can't be expensive for broken or damaged ones.
[G1 Android Development] JoelOFH:
you are flashing the base image with cyanogens roms, right? you are wiping between each try, right?

try dwangs. WIPE THE PHONE, then apply.
[G1 Android Development] stolen_pillow:
Just went through this with a friends G1 earlier tonight. Download DREAIMG.nbh from a different source, the file should be around 44 megs. There is a different/false/corrupt file floating around that is much smaller and it will not install. Once that goes through, click the trackball, pop the battery, and then reboot. Should be able to follow the rest of the instructions from there.
[G1 Android Development] Juniori91:
brick

I think my phone is bricked too.. Anything i press that screen comes up[/URL][/IMG] Anything i can do? Sorry abaut my bad english..
[G1 Android Development] enzob5:
Alright, I have poured over forums and websites for hours. I've come to many similar situations and some people have managed to get out of it, yet I have not.

It may not be "bricked" per se, but I definitely can not get this thing to budge.

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I am in germany, and I've rooted many phones with no problem, tonight, i went to root my friends phone by flashing a rc7 dreaimg.nbh on a goldcarded sdcard. Normally i don't get any issues, but during the install, it hung at system and then said fail, terminated, and so on. Now the g1 will go no where except for the rgb screen. I've attempted to flash every dreaimg.nbh i could get my hands on, including the american versions of the software, with no luck at all.

From my large amount of searching i've come to realize there's no real easy fix. I did some research on ADB and I haven't been able to find a sure-fire way to overcome this.

Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

--andrew
[G1 Android Development] fiktion:
I have the same problem. I was following the guide on cyanogen's wiki to root my G1. I downloaded the .nbh file he has linked, and it said update terminate update fail, whatever. Now, it won't go past the bootloader screen with all the colors and what not. I cannot get it into recovery mode. I can keep trying over and over again to load another .nbh file, but I always get the same results, update fails. I have a Tmobile G1, with 1.6.

EDIT: Ooooookay. I solved the problem. I just kept overwriting the .nbh file, then I would try to update, fail, overwrite, update, fail, etc, until it just finally worked. And yes, I checked the md5, and it was right every time. Dunno why it decided to work, but I'm glad it did.
[G1 Android Development] crisarn:
Is my phone bricked?

I was attempting to root for the first time and I was installing the spl and on reboot I am stuck on the G1 splash screen. I have tried to get to recovery but have had no luck. When I press home + Menu + Power I still get stuck at the splash screen.

Is there anything that I can do?
[G1 Android Development] Anthz:
I rooted and installed one of the hero roms a while back but decided it wasnt for me so i unrooted and downgraded back to the official software. Since then my phone has been turning itself off and trying to restart, but failing and getting stuck at the G1 screen. I can get into recovery mode but nothing seems to be working, anyone had this problem?
[G1 Android Development] halfsight:
G1 stuck on t-mobile screen after death spl. cant get into hboot or recovery. left it on at work, hoping something amazing happens when I get back. Any tips? Am I screwed? Dude has full insurance so isn't mad. I've tried yelling at it and shaking my fist angrily at it, none of that worked though.:(
[G1 Android Development] Mikey:
did you downgrade by actually reflashing rc-29 .nbh file??

How/what steps did you attempt/take for the downgrading??

Seems like left over files were left behind, conflicting at boot-up

I might be wrong though :o
[G1 Android Development] Mikey:
Which SPL did you attempt to flash??
[G1 Android Development] halfsight:
I accept my FAIL

Phone was already rooted with aman ra recovery 1.3.2 and the 26I radio. was flashing the 1.33.2005. have done it before. But I will no longer be flashing spl's or using any aman ra image above 1.2.3.

I prolly did something wrong. i do not doubt that at all, but i cannot get it out of the t-mobile screen.

I accept my fail and take it as a learning experience. this is the second phone in 3 weeks, i am pretty sure thats not to bad out of about 25 phones flashed, only 2 have bricked. i was simply trying to flash spl, then install the 2.0.1 like i did on mine.

:rolleyes:

oops, thought you were talking to me.
[G1 Android Development] Mikey:
like i mentioned to you in the other thread...........it's probably the board that came with the phone.
[G1 Android Development] Anthz:
Yeah i re-flashed, cant remember the steps.

It may be, its weird. Randomly while texting or when ever i go to charge my phone it will turn off and sometimes will not work for 30 mins +. Since my first post my messages, phone log and market place have began to mess up, not showing messages, calls and not letting me connect to the market place.

Any ideas?
[G1 Android Development] :
Sounds like your system is slowly corrupting to me, I'd say it was soon to die a very painful death.
[G1 Android Development] thynk:
awwww crap.

I got a little ahead of myself and ended up flashing a HERO radio to my G1. Boneheaded n00b mistake, I know. I have a pretty picture of a box with an arrow pointing the phone. Nothing loads, no recovery, fast boot, no SPL.

Is there any way to fix it or am I bricked.

Special note: When on call for work and working remotely is NOT a time to play around with the method of contact used to contact you
[G1 Android Development] RueTheDay:
The Radio by itself shouldn't brick you. Most bricks occur when flashing the Hero SPL without first flashing the Hero radio. But it's also possible the radio flash didn't complete successfully, and since the radio is also the IPL, that's a problem.

Don't you have an old phone lying around you could pop your SIM card into just to get calls?
[G1 Android Development] thynk:
Normally, I would have one, but with 3 kids using the last generation of hardware and my X7501 as an ebook reader is also out of state with them. So, now I'm off to buy a goPhone to use until they get back or another cheap G1 comes on CL.
[G1 Android Development] CaptainMorgan128:
Ok I need help, I have been using my phone for about a month now since the last time flashed a new rom (using one of the hero ones). It was working fine then all of the sudden my phone yesterday would just continue to freeze. I can boot into recovery, but when I wipe nothing fixes, also when I try to apply an update through the recovery it just stops at "Opening update package" and will not update. If anyone knows ANYTHING i can do to fix this it would be great.
[G1 Android Development] Shatterv2:
You need to post questions in the Q&A section. There people can give you a real answer.

1. Use ADB and get a new recovery.

2. If you have nandroid backups now is the time.

3.If you don't have nandroids get a new ROM, preferably a newer one. (A few pages back I posted my custom Rom check it out)

4.Do the wipe procedure and flash away.

*Make sure your partitions are there*

^^

Not sure if it'll work.
[G1 Android Development] :
Its home and boot for the recovery.

Home + menu + power is for rebooting.

Camera + power takes you too fastboot where you can try flashing from also.
[G1 Android Development] SHADE86:
A real challenge, touch pro 2 brick, eny help?''''''''

plis help

i was unlocking my phone (the HTC Touch Pro 2 <sprint>) and I was using a Diamond unlocker , but during the process there was a connection error and now my phone seems to be bricked. I can't get it to even turn on, get to a bootloader screen, or anything even remotely close.

The one odd thing that it does though, is when I connect it to my computer, it pops up and my computer recognizes there is a device there. In my Device Manager there is an unknown device called: Qualcomm CDMA Technologies MSM. I have tried every combination of two buttons, including holding down the reset button with all of them, but nothing gets me anywhere.

If anyone could help, I would really appreciate it. there's eny way to save it??? :(
[G1 Android Development] davidperlik:
Stuck in SPL Loop

Hello,

I've done some searching and I cannot find any definitive answers to my problem.

I was on CM 4.2.9.1 and tried to upgrade to 4.2.10.1 and had a bad flash (stuck at android boot). I noticed there was a new update, 4.2.11.1 the next morning and thought I would wipe completely and update from RC29. I downloaded all the files necessary and used spl to downgrade to RC29 which booted fine. From there I got root and started the upgrade part. I installed the RArecovery 1.5.2 which went fine. I then installed the defanged HTC recovery image and CM 4.2.11.1 then the newest radio and rebooted. That went directly back to the RA recovery after installing the radio. From there I installed the Hard SPL. After that finished and rebooted the phone booted to the Hard SPL or the recovery image.

Thinking I had messed something up I though I could start over and try again. I then booted to the SPL bootloader and flashed the RC29 DREAIMG.NBH to start over.

After that completed the phone will only boot to the SPL bootloader, which is now the original SPL. I have tried to flash the DREAIMG.NBH multiple times with the same result. When holding down Home and Power I get the ! screen.

Is my phone bricked? Or is there an image that I can flash to save it?

Thanks for any help.

David Perlik

davidperlik@gmail.com
[G1 Android Development] the_ocho:
Hello, I just got a G1 cheap off craigslist the phone will boot to recovery but thats it. if i do factory defaults and reboot the phone it just goes back to the recovery screen. as far as i know this phone is stock, i know nothing about the G1 other than my whole day today trying to figure out what to do with this thing.

Thanks for any help
[G1 Android Development] jongie123:
Do you have any options in Recovery?
[G1 Android Development] dilfatx:
My phone only boots up to a black screen.. it happened after I did a wipe and update for the new ROM (CM).. now it doesn't do anything..

no screen shows up other than a black screen..

Tmobile will not send me a new one as my warranty was over 8 days ago :(
[G1 Android Development] agychan:
can't do anything!!!!

HELP!! please help!!! i'm desperate!!!

recently i took my sisters rogers dream... i have no idea what updates were done to it...

so i first did the ONE CLICK ROOT... which seemed successful

then i found a CYANOGEN update... wiped my phone then flashed..and now, i cannot get into ANY sort of screen with any combination of buttons...

usb through my computer is not detected..i do not have adb ...!!

HELP!!!
[G1 Android Development] SilentTweak:
Same problem here too. I accidently flashed the ota over EBI1 radio, and now I can't boot into recovery or fastboot, is there anyway out of this? Cause on CM Wiki it says this, "eg: you currently have an EBI1 system and recovery image. If you flash an EBI0 radio image you will no longer be able to boot your phone. In this situation it is fixable if you know how but there are other situations that are not."

Not sure if that means it's actually fixable or not.
[G1 Android Development] lando123:
Went from Dwang and was going to install Superd.

Installed danger spl in the correct order of radio with reboot, spl with reboot, superd with reboot. Now sitting at the G1 screen. Have done numerous battery pulls, reboots, redone the entire flashing process. Tried downgrading the radio and hitting the nandroid backup, but still sit at the G1 screen when I try to start the phone for use.

I can get into the Camera+home+power fastboot screen area and also into CM1.4? recovery screen. I realllly dont know what else to do and need my phone working.
[G1 Android Development] lbcoder:
Sounds like you have an EBI0/1 issue -- what radio did you install? You need to use a KERNEL that matched the RADIO.

Note: This is NOT BRICKED.
[G1 Android Development] lando123:
Got it working again. I reinstalled hard spl, adp dream devphone, and cmod, got it working.

I downloaded the files linked from the superD thread first post. So I dunno what was up.
[G1 Android Development] shawe_ewahs:
Do you know if the problem of "blue led" means that it is bricked?

I install a HardSPL on a Magic, when it reboot, it don't do nothing more only this:

- Orange led when it is charging

- Green led when it is charged

- Blue led when I press TrackBall+Power Off

Any other combination of keypress don't do nothing
[G1 Android Development] nrmerritt:
I've dealt with this before and was able to revive a MT3G back into life. This is not a bricked state!! The device still powers on. You may not be able to connect with the normal adb commands but recovery is possible using the right RUU program by connecting the phone at the correct moment the RUU upgrade tool is started. Just search the Sapphire Forums and beware if you post a question in the development section about this you will probably be harshed on a little.
[G1 Android Development] shawe_ewahs:
I think/know that is recoverable, but I don't know what can I do or ask, I've from 19-03-2009 with my device in this state, searching info, trying a lot of think but nothing god news. I try with RUU program downloaded from HTC with my S/N but I can't do nothing.

Please, can you try to helpme? I'm from Spain and I don't know how can I ask here in better way that I try yet.

Thanks for your quote.
[G1 Android Development] nrmerritt:
Have you tried this?

When you run the RUU and it starts to detect your phone make sure that it is connected with the usb cable but the battery pulled so it is not "powered on". Then replace the battery and wait..You must be patient. It could take a few minutes for this method to work. If this fails then you need to try the same procedure as above but once the battery is in place try the different combinations of start up, ie,"power+home", "power and trackball", "power and return" one at a time till something works. This can be time consuming but if it makes your phone work then it's worth it.

I did also use this method with a gold card so you could be hosed if it doesn't work.
[G1 Android Development] shawe_ewahs:
Yes I try this method and don't work for me. The phone is never detected over USB.

Thanks again

EDIT: I don't know what I do, but Windows recognize my phone connected for a moment without know what device is plugged in. Any suggest?
[G1 Android Development] hasse 73:
brick or no brick thats the qustion ????

hi

yes i know !!!!! but i have read ewery thing but i am still like a new born baby on slippery ice with a G1 in his hand.

IS MY G1 BRICKT ???

it turns on and pressing red phone and tracker ball makes it a pretty blue light and shats it brickt ??????

any chances fixing this ????

and YES i tried pushing every button incl the light button in the room dosent work.

and YES i f####t up a spl and radio i think i mixt the files up and thats the where i am right now.

I post this beacase you are professionals ate this and i am a maybe brickt amateur

any help is welcome

Hasse blom
[G1 Android Development] tubaking182:
you quoted something that i wrote BEFORE the new SPL from haykuro. as of right now if you tried that SPL then there is another thread dedicatted to bricks from that. i am truly sorry for any misunderstanding and i wish i knew how to fix your phones, then i could charge $10 a piece(btw i am totally kidding, i am almost willing to brick my device just so i can have a brick in hand to work with, till then i am not much help).
[G1 Android Development] coldstatue:
My mistake, tubaking. I might end up donating mine for the cause. I'll PM you if I can work something out.
[G1 Android Development] 2leaponover1:
Before I Screw up anymore!

Ok, i finally took the plunge and rooted my phone. I had no problems getting to JF1.51. Not the ADP version because i still have yet to find out what that means after reading hours upon hours. I guess there is no way to organize a site like this with all the degrees of expertise.

I moved on to partition the sd card as my main reason for rooting was to store apps on the sd card. Here is where i did something wrong. I followed MartinFicks directions to a tee. Everything seemed fine. After doing this I kept receiving an erro r in the notification bar stating the SD was not compatible or something along those lines. I powered off and powered on the phone as stated in his tutorial, and got stuck at the infamous G1 screen. I was devastated. I took out the battery, powered on twice and still stuck. I decided to do the power + home and got oto the system recovery utility. I did the alt w. Now what. I am afraid to go any further with fear of bricking the phone. Keep in mind my sd card is blank now. HAs nothing on it. What do i need to do to get back to having jf 1.51 and i will have to research this apps to sd thing further. Help would be greatly appreciated. THis appears to be a small topic so hopefully there has been a lot of success fixing it. Thanks in advance!
[G1 Android Development] jriley60:
adp = android developer phone
[G1 Android Development] alapapa:
since you can get to recovery, just put the 1.51 update.zip on your sdcard and flash w/ alt+s
[G1 Android Development] rogro82:
Like i stated in another thread:

I wonder where the new spl came from... i also wonder why people just tend to update things they dont know @#$! about which may cause a bricked phone...

I also wonder why someone would put it online and recommend people to update without knowing it could harm someones phone....

A lot of threads get killed because sources can not be verified and such, but a spl which causes a lot of bricked phones is still online.... Until there is a 100% proven way to update the new spl ( if its even a new spl for the dream ) I would like mods to consider to take it offline or remove the download links from this forum, like they do with some roms ( which cant cause any real harm ).

I hope you people all thought about how this new SPL could potentially brick your phone when a new Radio comes along just as using the old radio with this SPL could brick your phone.

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I know some people have the benefits of this new SPL but as we can see here a lot of people got their phones bricked ( which can be caused by flashing a wrong SPL ). I do however wonder why the xda mods are taking something like an unverified/partial rom down ( which couldnt harm anyone ), but leave the SPL as it is....

Just like tubaking i would love to help, but since im not going to update to the SPL that bricked the phones I think im not of much help for now.... I will try to look into it further this weekend...
[G1 Android Development] 2leaponover1:
I was thinking that was logical, but i do not have to worry about the recovery.img or the other dreamig file that was on the sd and has been removed?
[G1 Android Development] malaeus:
HELP, i have tried just about everything that i can find on the web.

this technically isnt a "brick" persay, but i havnt been able to find anything about this online. it seems i am the only one with the issue.

sadly i dont even know where to begin. so i am just going to list it.

when phone actually boots up, it immediatley greets me with about 5 force close windows, from chomp sms, toggle settings, ahome, and android core. then it will run for about 2 hours.

the phone will then lag horribly, as in it takes literally 45 seconds to get to the dialer menu. if i am lucky it will work again after for a few hours.

most of the time the phone will simply freeze on whatever screen it happens to be on at the time. and will not take input from anything. not even hard reset at this point.

now i got sick and tired of dealing with it constantly failing me when i needed it. so i sucked it up and wiped my phone (after nand backups and manual backups) and installed a fresh copy of JF1.5.

repeat the previous steps, except end it in the upgrade to JF1.51 (ADP)

repeat the previous steps and end to the cyanogen JF mod.

i am using marcus's apps to sd, no symlink, using unionfs with an 8GB class 6 micro sdhc 600-700MB ext2 partition, reformatted card and all and moved ext2 to ext3 after upgrade to cyanogen's JF mod.

it started working for about ...... 2 minutes.

then it froze again, had to remove battery to shut it off. almost overheated to the point of nearly scalding my hand where the battery is.

i have wiped and reflashed many times now. and i am sick of this. i am not sure what i have done wrong. or if it is the phone that is just effed up to begin with. but from all the research i have done it seems that i have done nothing more than anyone else, and i only follow the tutorials on xda after seeing many many people try it successfully.

no matter what i do, it seems to crash on me. and now, i am sitting at the G1 screen again, and not going anywhere.. recovered from nand at a previous relatively stable state, and still wont boot. i can get to fastboot and recovery menu, however it will not boot..

i am lost, and i am tired of this ****. can someone PLEASE help me out. these issues are starting to seriously hinder my daily functions. not to mention its just plain annoying as hell that i cant even make or receive a frackin phone call because it takes forever for the phone to recognize what i have pressed. and thats only if im lucky enough to have it lag, and not freeze.

and now, with 62MB free internal and 630MB free on system/sd, it will not allow to me to install any apps because of an "insufficient storage" error........ what the *** is going on with my **** phone!? please, can anyone help me ? i dont know what is wrong with it and i cant fix it.
[G1 Android Development] hiroots:
you should get rid of apps2sd. reflash wth nhb file. start over.
[G1 Android Development] koolmick:
Great point...I learned my lesson the hard way...I had to get a new sim card just to sign back onto my phone. For now I'm gonna stick with roms that don't require "special" SPLs that could possibly "brick" your phone...
[G1 Android Development] malaeus:
i use too many tools to eliminate apps to sd, but i am using unionfs not symlink, as well as having a class6 8GB micro SDHC, and only about 6-700MB apps partition.
[G1 Android Development] nickryan0612:
I have an official brick!!! :(

No ADP

Tried flashing an SPL With recovery.img

Stuck at G1 Screen and no way to get to bootloader or recovery screen.

Tried Home+Power and Power+Camera Buttton
[G1 Android Development] tubaking182:
i'm sorry you have a brick but there wasn't much point to your post, you have an official brick and you know this, no need for someone to announce it
[G1 Android Development] barakinflorida:
it can happen

I am an super g1 junky I own 2 and have jail broken over 10...

I DID BRICK ONE PHONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you can not get to the Bootloader & you can not get to recovery...

then and ONLY THEN your phone is bricked....

it can happen when you flash the new SPL and when I did it it was on a phone that i did not follow all the steps.
[G1 Android Development] tubaking182:
you are quoting something that was posted long before the new SPL, yes there is now a way to brick you phone but when that was posted it was RARE. people are not gonna go back and edit stuff from a month ago just because a few people did something wrong or something new came out
[G1 Android Development] Mysticcal:
I'm.... semi bricked?

Can boot into bootloader, tried wiping a billion times...

try to flash to 1.51.

Cannot mount SD.

what should be done with power + camera?
[G1 Android Development] tubaking182:
try fastboot. you should be able to do that as long as you are using HardSPL